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Movie ID: 780
RT slug: the_card_counter
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_card_counter
Release year: 2021
Runtime: 109 mins
Wide release date: 2021-09-10
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2021-09-30
Tomatometer final: 88%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Paul Schrader
Writers: Paul Schrader
Producers: Braxton Pope, David M. Wulf, Lauren Mann
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-16 21:11:03
Updated: 2026-06-16 21:11:03
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions, and features riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe.
Led by Oscar Isaac's gripping performance, The Card Counter adds another weighty chapter to Paul Schrader's long inquiry into man's moral responsibility.
Canonical reviews: 226
Canonical fresh: 198
Canonical rotten: 28
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 88%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-16 17:11:19
Snapshot Tomatometer: 88%
Snapshot review count: 226
Snapshot fresh count: 198
Snapshot rotten count: 28
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1362 (full_snapshot)
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| 1 | Oscar Isaac | William Tell |
| 2 | Tiffany Haddish | La Linda |
| 3 | Tye Sheridan | Cirk |
| 4 | Willem Dafoe | Major John Gordo |
| 5 | Alexander Babara | Mr. USA |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176559 | Sarah Vincent | Sarah G Vincent Views | Fresh | — | 2024-06-10T03:02:57Z | 2024-06-10 03:02:57 | Schrader gives Isaacs room to inhabit his internally tortured, violent, and demented character as he attempts to do an imitation of a normal person repressing a rage and self-loathing that reveals itself when confronted with revulsion. |
| 176560 | Ryan McQuade | InSession Film | Rotten | D | 2024-04-04T23:51:48Z | 2024-04-04 23:51:48 | The Card Counter is a misstep that makes you want to just fold in your hand and leave the table for good. |
| 176561 | Ben Bradley | Starburst | Fresh | — | 2024-01-31T17:09:45Z | 2024-01-31 17:09:45 | Paul Schrader’s unique style is evident in “The Card Counter,” a film that can be seen as part of Paul Schrader’s lengthy inquiry into complex characters and their inner struggles. |
| 176562 | Serena Seghedoni | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2023-08-08T16:29:40Z | 2023-08-08 16:29:40 | Forgiveness, guilt, revenge and redemption are some of the many themes approached by a slow-burning thriller that will have your full attention from start to end. |
| 176563 | Mo Muzammal | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2023-07-27T01:02:42Z | 2023-07-27 01:02:42 | The Card Counter may not earn its final destination, but it makes for one hell of a ride. |
| 176564 | Zach Pope | Zach Pope Reviews | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T21:09:38Z | 2023-07-26 21:09:38 | Oscar Isaac stays winning |
| 176565 | Paul Kanieski | KSQD Community Radio | Fresh | — | 2023-07-25T23:29:55Z | 2023-07-25 23:29:55 | The Card Counter is a fascinating character portrait with the trappings of a suspenseful revenge thriller, all wrapped up in a bloody American flag. |
| 176566 | Manuel São Bento | MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) | Fresh | B+ | 2023-07-25T21:34:13Z | 2023-07-25 21:34:13 | The Card Counter is a protagonist-driven narrative focused on a hauntingly captivating redemption arc intensely elevated by an exceptional lead performance from Oscar Isaac. |
| 176567 | Graeme Tuckett | The Post NZ | Fresh | — | 2023-06-26T17:54:47Z | 2023-06-26 17:54:47 | The Card Counter is a brooding, watchful and downbeat film. |
| 176568 | Federico Furzan | Movie-Blogger.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2023-04-17T15:23:27Z | 2023-04-17 15:23:27 | The Card Counter doesn’t follow the regular structure for plot or characterization. Nevertheless, there’s an emotional gravitational pull that only grows with time. Characters are good, in their own sense, but considering which code? |
| 176569 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | Fresh | — | 2022-11-28T20:09:29Z | 2022-11-28 20:09:29 | ...fully rendered as a feat of mild physical endurance, a devotional gesture both odd and touching for the reverence it shows this ending and its faith in its enduring power, no matter how many times distilled and refracted. |
| 176570 | Mitchell Beaupre | The Film Stage | Fresh | A | 2022-09-22T18:17:58Z | 2022-09-22 18:17:58 | Schrader’s observations on moral depravity, the innate hollowness of just fucking getting by, and the lies we tell ourselves (or don’t) to try doing so have only felt more potent as the years wear on. |
| 176571 | Ray Lobo | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2022-08-25T07:05:21Z | 2022-08-25 07:05:21 | This is a powerful film. It is mature, in control, knows what it wants to say, and says it both in terms of script and visuals. Schrader has cemented himself as one of the giants of film. |
| 176572 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-08-17T13:20:49Z | 2022-08-17 13:20:49 | In the end it’s Oscar Isaac who drives the movie and he’s just the right fit for Schrader’s stern Bresson-like minimalism. |
| 176573 | Victor Esquirol | Otroscines.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-07-08T23:33:05Z | 2022-07-08 23:33:05 | Someone may tell Paul Schrader there are some rotten apples in a basket, but he knows the problem is in the container. The Card Counter ponders on the chances of overcoming this belief... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176574 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2022-07-08T09:08:13Z | 2022-07-08 09:08:13 | At every moment, this blistering film is anchored by Isaac's phenomenal portrayal, which is quiet, slippery and weighty all at once. |
| 176575 | Cory Woodroof | 615 Film | Fresh | — | 2022-07-06T03:28:24Z | 2022-07-06 03:28:24 | A blistering thrill of moral dilemma and a hell of a study on how hard it is to forgive yourself. |
| 176576 | Katie Hogan | FILMHOUNDS Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-07-01T00:06:02Z | 2022-07-01 00:06:02 | Although the plot does seem to divert from the main story, the performances from the main cast steer it back to focus into a decent thriller. |
| 176577 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-06-30T16:58:54Z | 2022-06-30 16:58:54 | This is tough, testing stuff that is not for everybody, but will handsomely reward those up to the challenge. |
| 176578 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Rotten | 4/10 | 2022-06-17T17:47:31Z | 2022-06-17 17:47:31 | Desolate, depraved and depressing drama....Deal me out! |
| 176579 | Javier Ocaña | El Pais (Spain) | Fresh | — | 2022-06-17T01:39:11Z | 2022-06-17 01:39:11 | The search for forgiveness exposed through a strange poetry of abandonment, a simple and austere staging, a classic visual structure, dissolving images, fades, so Dostoyevskian in many ways. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 176580 | Erick Estrada | Cinegarage | Fresh | — | 2022-06-16T21:57:06Z | 2022-06-16 21:57:06 | Schrader builds a disconcerting anti-fable, perhaps because in doing so he gets to explore a disenchanted Trumpian America, disconnected from the rest of the world... [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176581 | Victoria Luxford | City AM | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-03-03T15:14:22Z | 2022-03-03 15:14:22 | Theres so much going on beneath that fastidious faade that makes you lean in closer. One of the most talented actors to break through in the last ten years, Isaac is so much more than his Star Wars misadventures allowed him to be. |
| 176582 | David Lynch | KENS 5 TV (San Antonio) | Fresh | — | 2022-02-22T01:29:16Z | 2022-02-22 01:29:16 | "'The Card Counter' is a film thats tough to embrace with open arms. Then again, what Schrader movie isnt?" |
| 176583 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-02-12T06:02:35Z | 2022-02-12 06:02:35 | The Card Counter is an excellent variation on persistent Schrader themes. |
| 176584 | Steph Green | WeLoveCinema | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-02-10T09:43:25Z | 2022-02-10 09:43:25 | With outstanding, layered performances from Oscar Isaac and Tye Sheridan in particular, The Card Counter is Schrader at his most enthralling, and proof that the septuagenarian director still has a magic touch. |
| 176585 | John Beifuss | Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-02-03T22:26:58Z | 2022-02-03 22:26:58 | Another of Schrader's portraits of fracturing loner diarists trundling toward penitential violence. |
| 176586 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | B | 2022-01-22T23:13:59Z | 2022-01-22 23:13:59 | Oscar Isaac gives a very quiet performance in this film, as a man who tries to go through life unnoticed, very much under wraps. When the wraps start coming off, late in the film, we begin to see just what he is capable of, for good, or for evil. |
| 176587 | Cole Smithey | ColeSmithey.com | Fresh | A | 2022-01-22T05:36:52Z | 2022-01-22 05:36:52 | God's lonely man continues his journey though Paul Schrader's oeuvre. How lucky we are. |
| 176588 | A.S. Hamrah | The Baffler | Fresh | — | 2022-01-18T20:11:11Z | 2022-01-18 20:11:11 | The Card Counter is a subtle exorcism of national crimes eighteen years old, an unusual, serious genre film unafraid to hold its protagonist to account. |
| 176589 | Trevor Johnston | Radio Times | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-13T17:00:38Z | 2022-01-13 17:00:38 | With his film, Schrader makes a strong statement about US military iniquities in Iraq leaving a festering scar on the American psyche. |
| 176590 | Alejandro G. Calvo | Sensacine | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-01-06T00:10:56Z | 2022-01-06 00:10:56 | Schrader... brings out the best of himself. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176591 | Nando Salvá | Cinemanía (Spain) | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-01-06T00:00:53Z | 2022-01-06 00:00:53 | Incredibly dark and irresistibly romantic. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176592 | Luis Martínez | El Mundo (Spain) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-05T22:10:33Z | 2022-01-05 22:10:33 | Poignant, ascetic and voracious. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176593 | Manu Yáñez | Fotogramas | Fresh | 5/5 | 2022-01-03T18:40:24Z | 2022-01-03 18:40:24 | Schrader portrays the American reality as a hell filled with consumerist and militaristic impulse. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176594 | Shaun Munro | Flickering Myth | Fresh | 4/5 | 2022-01-02T14:50:19Z | 2022-01-02 14:50:19 | Schrader's intoxicatingly moody meditation on guilt and America's dark recent political past is a character drama with real, biting staying power. |
| 176595 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Rotten | 6/10 | 2022-01-02T06:10:17Z | 2022-01-02 06:10:17 | The cards of its proposal slowly lose momentum when it bets on the safe play of repeating the psychological abyss of the protagonist trapped in the cage of vice and guilt. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176596 | Mary Ann Brussat | Spirituality & Practice | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2022-01-02T00:40:11Z | 2022-01-02 00:40:11 | A character study of a gambler seeking redemption for his past actions as part of the American war machine. |
| 176597 | Kiko Vega | Espinof | Fresh | — | 2021-12-31T04:30:24Z | 2021-12-31 04:30:24 | A sure bet from one of the last great visceral creators. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 176598 | Lisa Nesselson | France24 | Fresh | — | 2021-12-30T20:00:34Z | 2021-12-30 20:00:34 | Intelligent, rich, pertinent, tense storytelling for grownups. The stakes feel real. |
| 176599 | Jane Freebury | The Canberra Times (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-12-29T23:00:46Z | 2021-12-29 23:00:46 | An austere, somewhat relentless, journey to redemption set in the casino, of all places, with Oscar Isaac in a convincing performance as a damaged veteran of Iraq |
| 176600 | Andrea Chase | Killer Movie Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-24T02:10:38Z | 2021-12-24 02:10:38 | Pits the failings of society against the individual conscience, the role of free will against group think, and the desire for forgiveness that can never quite be quenched. |
| 176601 | Aly Caviness | Midwest Film Journal | Fresh | — | 2021-12-23T02:30:33Z | 2021-12-23 02:30:33 | The Card Counter works best as a showcase for Isaac, with material from Schrader tailor-made to elicit one of the year's greatest performances. |
| 176603 | Sean Fennessey | The Ringer | Fresh | — | 2021-12-21T02:10:36Z | 2021-12-21 02:10:36 | I can count on one hand the number of filmmakers who are capable of ripping out the insulation of our daily lives and dragging it into view for everyone to wince at. |
| 176602 | Harvey S. Karten | Big Apple Reviews | Fresh | B | 2021-12-21T02:10:36Z | 2021-12-21 02:10:36 | Considerably involving tale of a card sharp bent on revenge. |
| 176604 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2021-12-18T01:21:30Z | 2021-12-18 01:21:30 | An excellent Oscar Isaac performance is the chief selling point. |
| 176605 | Rob Gonsalves | Rob's Movie Vault | Fresh | A | 2021-12-15T18:50:19Z | 2021-12-15 18:50:19 | Schrader no longer seems to be denying himself the contentments of filmmaking; he has developed a tidy, rigorous focus. Isaac obliges Schrader with a smoldering, implosive performance rich in stillness and watchfulness. |
| 176606 | Sean Mulvihill | FanboyNation.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-14T16:10:16Z | 2021-12-14 16:10:16 | Schrader interrogates the difference between the nation's professed ideals and its actions, and does so in an engrossing drama that isn't about lecturing the audience or pandering to preexisting political beliefs. |
| 176607 | Allison Rose | FlickDirect | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-14T15:50:18Z | 2021-12-14 15:50:18 | The Card Counter offers some excellent visuals and a unique and decent plot, but it feels as though it is moving along at a snail's pace only to be left unsatisfied once you get to the finish line. |
| 176608 | Keva York | The Monthly (Australia) | Fresh | — | 2021-12-10T01:10:49Z | 2021-12-10 01:10:49 | These sequences are all the more arresting for the sense of their aggressive stylisation being a new trick and Schrader an old bulldog. It's always a thrill when the writer-director indulges his experimental streak. |
| 176609 | Travis Johnson | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | — | 2021-12-04T04:00:46Z | 2021-12-04 04:00:46 | Are we only the worst thing we've ever done or can we transcend our past transgressions? This is the question at the heart of The Card Counter. |
| 176610 | Simon Miraudo | Movie Squad (RTRFM 92.1) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-12-03T01:40:43Z | 2021-12-03 01:40:43 | A movie that filled me with complete dread and fear the entire time. Oscar Isaac probably gives the best performance of the year. |
| 176611 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-11-30T20:50:30Z | 2021-11-30 20:50:30 | Isaac gives a finely judged performance. His Tell is a tightly controlled but outwardly affable character who behaves as if he's given up all ambition beyond the desire to stay out of trouble. |
| 176612 | John Serba | Decider | Fresh | — | 2021-11-29T18:00:32Z | 2021-11-29 18:00:32 | The Card Counter doesn't offer much resembling traditional dramatic resolution, and if you're expecting otherwise, then you haven't seen a movie by Schrader, who routinely sets his characters on crazy, unsettling paths to redemption. |
| 176613 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-27T10:10:05Z | 2021-11-27 10:10:05 | ...times change, but Schrader's caustic yet sympathetic view of mis-applied masculinity is always a cut above the norm... |
| 176614 | Esther Zuckerman | Thrillist | Fresh | — | 2021-11-23T20:40:38Z | 2021-11-23 20:40:38 | The Card Counter is an uncomfortable, meditative movie about guilt, risk, retribution, and the way America operates. It's also an extraordinary example of Oscar Isaac's power. |
| 176615 | Sean Gilman | Seattle Screen Scene | Fresh | — | 2021-11-20T00:20:47Z | 2021-11-20 00:20:47 | Their masochistic tortures are rooted in a fundamental narcissism and Schrader can't resist depicting them as the doomed romantic heroes they believe themselves to be. |
| 176616 | Gemma Creagh | Film Ireland Magazine | Fresh | — | 2021-11-12T20:50:51Z | 2021-11-12 20:50:51 | While not every film is an ace in the hole, there's still plenty to enjoy in The Card Counter; this story is ambitious, imperfect, but inherently watchable. |
| 176617 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-11T23:40:26Z | 2021-11-11 23:40:26 | Beautifully shot, the film's pace is slow but steely, while profound topics and themes make it powerfully involving. |
| 176618 | Wendy Ide | Observer (UK) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2021-11-07T13:50:10Z | 2021-11-07 13:50:10 | The film has a broodingly commanding central performance. It's a pity, then, that much of its promise is squandered by sloppiness, both in the writing and elsewhere. |
| 176619 | Andy Lea | Daily Express (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-06T22:00:18Z | 2021-11-06 22:00:18 | A haunting, self-directed drama about a redemption-seeking gambler. |
| 176620 | Hanna Flint | Time Out | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-11-05T20:21:13Z | 2021-11-05 20:21:13 | For all its moody moralising, The Card Counter is a slowburn bluff with little new to offer. |
| 176621 | Dulcie Pearce | The Sun (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-05T13:50:40Z | 2021-11-05 13:50:40 | This slow-burn redemption tale with a final flush of action has plenty in common with the poker tournaments it depicts. |
| 176622 | Brian Viner | Daily Mail (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-05T13:41:08Z | 2021-11-05 13:41:08 | I couldn't quite shake off a sense that the two distinct narratives would have been better served by separate films, but Isaac is splendid and gets top-notch support from Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafoe. |
| 176623 | Kevin Maher | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-11-05T12:40:33Z | 2021-11-05 12:40:33 | [A] clunky, self-serious dirge... |
| 176624 | Matt Hudson | What I Watched Tonight | Fresh | 10/10 | 2021-11-05T10:50:11Z | 2021-11-05 10:50:11 | Powered by Isaac's excellent performance, The Card Counter is precisely layered and fiercely executed. |
| 176625 | Paul Whitington | Irish Independent | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-04T20:30:47Z | 2021-11-04 20:30:47 | This is a powerful, grimly substantial film, and Isaac is excellent as a man who has learned to sublimate his rage, and pain. |
| 176626 | Raphael Abraham | Financial Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-03T19:20:32Z | 2021-11-03 19:20:32 | The film-maker shows his unblunted gift for writing riveting dialogue, peering into the heart of contemporary America and finding its black spots, while Isaac proves a solid bet. |
| 176627 | Peter Bradshaw | Guardian | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-03T11:50:13Z | 2021-11-03 11:50:13 | There's a horrible, queasy urgency to this high-stakes game. |
| 176628 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-03T11:30:11Z | 2021-11-03 11:30:11 | The Card Counter sees Paul Schrader enjoying a remarkable late-period renaissance with another hard-hitting exploration of purgatorial suffering. |
| 176629 | Emma Simmonds | The List | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-11-02T20:50:37Z | 2021-11-02 20:50:37 | Features a number of wobbles but that also has the power to grab and transfix you, with its strange and haunting imagery, eccentric touches and furiously intense lead turn from the always-interesting Oscar Isaac. |
| 176630 | Brian Lloyd | entertainment.ie | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-02T16:40:18Z | 2021-11-02 16:40:18 | Precise and cool, 'The Card Counter' offers up one of Oscar Isaac's best on-screen performances to date and reminds us how effective Paul Schrader is at exploring the corners of the human mind that we neglect for good reason. |
| 176631 | Al Horner | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-11-01T16:40:31Z | 2021-11-01 16:40:31 | An ace in the hole from a filmmaker himself unafraid to gamble.The Card Counter's pacing won't be for everyone, but Schrader fans will be all-in on this gripping portrait of lament. |
| 176632 | Jeanmarie Tan | The New Paper (Singapore) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-10-29T17:20:44Z | 2021-10-29 17:20:44 | It is so anticlimactic, you walk away feeling like you are the one who got played. |
| 176633 | John Lui | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-10-28T23:51:00Z | 2021-10-28 23:51:00 | Structurally, it is not complicated, but Isaac's layered, often unnerving performance as the wary poker player revealing his hand sells it. |
| 176634 | Michael Clark | Epoch Times | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-10-24T22:10:13Z | 2021-10-24 22:10:13 | Preaching to the same choir for 50 years, Schrader grew his audience with First Reformed and could've continued that momentum with this film but his questionable decisions regarding cast and plot resulted in a movie that is just average and forgettable. |
| 176635 | Lynn Venhaus | PopLifeSTL | Fresh | B | 2021-10-22T21:51:03Z | 2021-10-22 21:51:03 | This film is dark and disturbing, but also haunting and hypnotic. That is largely due to the cast's interpretation of this material as well as first-rate production elements. |
| 176636 | Deborah Young | The Film Verdict | Fresh | — | 2021-10-14T08:40:20Z | 2021-10-14 08:40:20 | One of Paul Schrader's most complex and profound reflections on personal traumatic memory bleeds into the American tragedy of Abu Ghraib in this anguishing drama. |
| 176637 | Don Shanahan | Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast | Fresh | — | 2021-10-12T03:00:30Z | 2021-10-12 03:00:30 | "The Card Counter" emerges as one of Schrader's modern best. |
| 176638 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-10-10T16:40:33Z | 2021-10-10 16:40:33 | "The Card Counter" is a thoughtful and intense character study, one that explores what it means to reckon with a deeply troubling past...aesthetically distinctive and meticulously paced. |
| 176639 | Brett McCracken | The Gospel Coalition | Fresh | — | 2021-10-08T20:11:12Z | 2021-10-08 20:11:12 | It strikes me as perhaps Schrader's most interesting engagement with theological themes. |
| 176640 | Eleanor Ringel Cater | Saporta Report (Atlanta) | Rotten | — | 2021-10-07T22:50:57Z | 2021-10-07 22:50:57 | Overall, it's a bleak and repetitive effort, a kind of perpetual dark night of the soul that, alas, has become all too familiar. |
| 176641 | Neal Pollack | Book & Film Globe | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-10-04T17:40:34Z | 2021-10-04 17:40:34 | It contains a handful of interesting shots and some tightly-written, suspenseful scenes. But it's also kind of hypermasculine nonsense. |
| 176642 | Todd Gilchrist | What To Watch | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2021-10-02T02:01:01Z | 2021-10-02 02:01:01 | If Schrader's latest exemplifies his most well-established instincts, it evidences how effective they can be implemented when he utilizes as much discipline as the characters he is portraying. |
| 176643 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-09-29T00:20:46Z | 2021-09-29 00:20:46 | The film, drowsy in tone and slow in pace, reaches a ridiculous finale after showing a discouraging lack of nerve in the execution. |
| 176644 | Jason Gorber | That Shelf | Fresh | — | 2021-09-27T21:40:44Z | 2021-09-27 21:40:44 | Oscar Isaac is excellent in THE CARD COUNTER, and while he's let down by his co-performers, there's enough rockstar acting by the lead, and enough cardshark nerdiness, to drive you to see Schrader's latest. |
| 176645 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-09-26T07:00:08Z | 2021-09-26 07:00:08 | The flaws can't always be readily disentangled from - or even differentiated from - the strengths. |
| 176646 | Nathaniel Bell | L.A. Weekly | Fresh | — | 2021-09-26T01:20:08Z | 2021-09-26 01:20:08 | The spiritually arid universe that cinema currently inhabits is likely to receive The Card Counter as something fresh: an intellectually serious work by a seriously intellectual filmmaker. |
| 176647 | K. Austin Collins | Rolling Stone | Fresh | — | 2021-09-24T20:30:36Z | 2021-09-24 20:30:36 | The movie has real moral terror at its center. It gets ugly: It gives that word fresh resonance. This is where it gets things right -- what will, one hopes, make it worth remembering. |
| 176648 | Jared Mobarak | Jaredmobarak.com | Fresh | 8/10 | 2021-09-23T13:40:17Z | 2021-09-23 13:40:17 | It all leads to the only logical conclusion it could and yet Schrader finds a way to give it extra weight in its minimalistic and matter-of-fact delivery. |
| 176649 | James Marsh | South China Morning Post | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-09-23T05:40:09Z | 2021-09-23 05:40:09 | Paced with the deliberate restraint and discipline of a seasoned poker player, the film is clinical and unflinching in its execution, its impact incremental yet lingering. |
| 176650 | Diane Carson | KDHX (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2021-09-22T22:10:36Z | 2021-09-22 22:10:36 | This film is in a class of its own. |
| 176651 | Sean P. Means | The Movie Cricket | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-09-21T05:00:22Z | 2021-09-21 05:00:22 | Isaac's performance is one of the best you'll see all year, one that will be admired for its honesty and quiet menace. |
| 176652 | Ana Yorke | PopMatters | Fresh | — | 2021-09-20T23:50:43Z | 2021-09-20 23:50:43 | Paul Schrader's The Card Counter finds Oscar Isaac at his mercurial best and presents yet another triumph of the writer/director's tongue-in-cheek cynicism. |
| 176653 | Niall Browne | Movies in Focus | Fresh | 5/5 | 2021-09-20T19:00:55Z | 2021-09-20 19:00:55 | It's not hyperbole to say that Paul Schrader might just have delivered the film of the year with The Card Counter. |
| 176654 | Soham Gadre | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2021-09-18T03:30:45Z | 2021-09-18 03:30:45 | It might be too early to say The Card Counter is the best Iraq War film to ever come out of Hollywood, but it does metaphorically reflect in all of its characters and the hobby of poker. |
| 176655 | Dan Lybarger | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | — | 2021-09-18T01:10:57Z | 2021-09-18 01:10:57 | Like a lot of Schrader's other protagonists, Bill is walking a dangerous line, but when he and his creator are at their peaks, it's hard to look away from the high wire act. |
| 176656 | Anne Brodie | What She Said | Fresh | — | 2021-09-18T00:31:06Z | 2021-09-18 00:31:06 | [Tiffany Haddish] can handle any kind of role she tackles beautifully. |
| 176657 | Kathleen Sachs | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2021-09-17T23:21:33Z | 2021-09-17 23:21:33 | Often prone to wearing thin his compulsions, Schrader's fealty to the work of Robert Bresson and his penchant for desultory narrative and aesthetic caprices are here tempered by exceptional performances from Isaac and Haddish... |
| 176658 | Michael Calleri | Niagara Gazette | Fresh | — | 2021-09-17T20:01:27Z | 2021-09-17 20:01:27 | As [Tell] slowly alters the overview of his own philosophical and moral code, you see him chaffing at the possibility of constraints even the slightest agreements would create. |
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